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246 – Wendy Wagner & Scooby Doo On Mushrooms
Category: Arts
Duration: 01:25:42
Publish Date: 2025-07-15 17:00:00
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Back on the trails for a mind-melting trip this week.

 

Wendy Wagner is in the hot-seat, playing shaman as we discuss The Girl in the Creek – her brand new novel of fungoid-terror, eco-thrills and psychedelic strangeness. It’s a beautiful, bewildering hallucination of a book.

 

Wendy’s inspirationsrange from cutting edge science to the antics of Scooby Doo and the gang, along with a sprinkle of Lovecraft, and a hint of self-hypnosis. We cover it all, along with a discussion of eco-grief, higher states of consciousness, weird non-fiction obsessions and a little bit of trail running chat – which I promise we make macabre.

 

Enjoy!

 

Other books mentioned:

 

  • “An Infestation of Blue” (2023), by Wendy Wagner
  • The Deer Kings (2021), by Wendy Wagner
  • Entangled Lives (2023), by Merlin Sheldrake
  • Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016), by Frans de Waal
  • The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens – and Ourselves (2020), by Arik Kershenbaum
  • “The Colour Out of Space,” (1927), by H.P. Lovecraft
  • Lost in the Dark, and Other Excursions (2025), by John Langan
  • The October Film Haunt (2025), by Michael Wehunt

 

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